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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ali Chen who wrote (37965)	10/2/1998 9:20:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1580265

Are you sure you have enough qualification to comprehend and judge? Just as much as you do. Just imagine, AMD is capable to pump out 400MHz with 5-stage-deep design on K6 on 0.25, while Intel tops at 450 - 500 on the same feature size and 12--stage-deep pipeline. Could you do some math and tell us how much "worse" is the manufacturing technology at AMD? Well, first of all, AMD's achievement of a speed of 400 MHz for a 0.25 micron K6 will be a significant accomplishment, whenever that occurs. I've give you that, oh condescending one. But it's kind of obvious that the top-speed parts that AMD releases are necessarily going to be very low yield compared to its mainstream offerings. Meanwhile, you can bet that Intel's 500 MHz offerings are still going to be high-yield on 0.25 micron process. I'm sure Intel can push even further with the 0.25 micron process, but that won't be necessary if their 0.18 micron process is just around the corner. What they can reach with a new Alpha-style design, huh? Come on, Ali, you're smarter than that. It's not likely that the K7 will be any more Alpha-like than the Pentium II is, except of course for the front-side bus interface. (Please, no cracks about how Intel allegedly stole technology from DEC.) But hey, I'd be pleasantly surprised if AMD can pull-off an Alpha-like design in K7. I'd also be astounded if this sort of design could be sold at dirt-cheap prices, and if such a design can be released in Q2 1999. If that's the case, AMD can really shake up the x86 computing world. On the other hand, these are very optimistic, best-case scenarios. Reality is likely going to be a step or two below. So would you suggest that I load up on some AMD stock just before the uP Forum later this month? Tenchusatsu